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The end of “Plus belle la vie”? The TV series in the dark after 17 years of broadcasting

2022-02-17T13:13:49.347Z


The mythical meeting of France 3, which punctuated the dinners of millions of French people, could disappear from the screens at the end of the season


You knew Rudy, Ninon, Thomas, and lived to the rhythm of the transformations of the Mistral?

A part of your last 17 years could crumble next summer.

In any case, this is what Le Figaro says this Thursday, even if this information is to be put into perspective, confides to the Parisian France Télévisions.

“Our contract with Newen

(which produces the France 3 soap opera)

ends on December 31, 2022. After this date, the end of

Plus belle la vie

, whose audiences are down, is a possibility.

But it is not the only one.

We have simply reopened the discussions, as two years ago, “says the management.

Audiences at half mast

Un avenir plus que jamais en pointillé, donc, pour ce rendez-vous immanquable pour des millions de Français, mais dont les audiences, après plus de 4 500 épisodes diffusés, s’effritent saison après saison. Depuis la saison 2016-2017, avec ses 4,5 millions de téléspectateurs et 18 % d’audience en moyenne, la baisse est en effet très claire : de 3,7 millions de fidèles au cours de l’année 2018-2019, à 3,4 millions pour la période 2019-2020, puis 3,1 millions de fans en 2020-2021. D’après les derniers chiffres, le bilan partiel de la saison 2021-2022 (en cours) fait état de 2,5 millions de téléspectateurs (ou 10 % d’audience).

Launched on August 30, 2004, “Plus Belle la Vie”, shot in the studio and outdoors in Marseille, nevertheless peaked at the top of France Télévisions audiences for several years.

At the start of the 2011 school year, each episode was watched by an average of 5.4 million people (including replay), or 20.9% audience share (PDA).

Figures to make the competition pale, which have made “Plus belle la vie” an industrial success.

And a real jackpot for the production company TelFrance, bought by Newen (subsidiary of TF 1).

“Beyond 14% of PDA, France 3 paid us a profit-sharing”, confided in November 2020 a former executive to Parisian.

Source: leparis

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